One of the oldest and greatest of the Livery Companies of London, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths has a long and continuous history of devotion to the goldsmiths’ craft. It still binds apprentices as in the Middle Ages to ensure high standards of workmanship, administers the hall-marking laws and safeguards the quality of the national coinage, while in modern times it takes an active part in bringing the science of metallurgy to bear upon the work of the industry it so nobly represents.